Updated: July 14, 2020 (April 11, 2005)

Important Upcoming Product Support Dates

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Several important products enter new support phases in the next year.

This chart shows the date (in parentheses) that these products will enter a new support phase between Apr. 1, 2005, and mid-2006. It also shows products that are already in Custom support or that will be entering it in the next year.

Products leaving
Mainstream, entering
Extended support

Visual Basic 6.0 (Apr. ’05)
Interix 2.x, Services for Netware 5.0 (Apr. ’05)
Systems Management Server (SMS) 2.0 (Mar. ’06)
Windows 2000, all workstation and server editions (July ’05)
Services for Unix 2.0 Standard Edition (July ’05)
Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 (July ’05)
Embedded Visual Tools 3.0 (Oct. ’05)
SQL Server 7 (Jan. ’06)
Exchange 2000 (Jan. ’06)
Commerce Server 2000 Standard Edition (Apr. ’06)

Products already
in or entering
Custom support

Windows NT 4.0 Workstation

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